Links

Published: 2021/03/26

Last updated: 2022/09/26

All categories and entries are strictly in alphabetical order. Acceptance on this list does not necessarily imply 100% endorsement. You get the idea.

Blogs and Misc. Personal Sites

• Cidoku.net The personal site of Cidoku, notable for its original Flash animations and Comic Chat avatars, among other things.
• Gab A bastion of hope in a terrible social media hellscape.
• Koshka’s Kingdom An ever-growing site featuring a number of original designs and a dizzying array of topics, all in trademark 90s style. The Dragonball section is not to be missed.

Free and Open Source Software

• Arabesque A technical blog with an emphasis on shell scripting, Vim, and related things. Also features a number of interesting Vim-related koans.
• Bash Wiki Greycat’s Bash Wiki is the single most important site you’ll ever find on bash scripting. Pay special attention to the BashPitfalls page.
• Devuan A wonderfully boring systemd-free Debian clone. Development is a little slower than upstream, but they’re always plugging along.
• Dig Deeper I mention this site here mainly because some of the technical articles are very informative. I don’t agree with everything on this site, but it always makes for interesting reading.
• Free Software Foundation Many good essays on the importance of Free Software and resources to help you find and use such.
• Gentoo Install Gentoo. Seriously though, the level of control it offers is unrivalled anywhere else, and it’s systemd-free.
• Spyware Watchdog A large collection of articles dissecting various programs in regards to how much/little spyware they implement. It has a bit of overlap with Dig Deeper, but doesn’t go into the same tangents.

Non-free Software

• Mermaid Elizabeth’s Microsoft Chat Resources The number one resource hub for Microsoft Comic Chat, a long-since discontinued yet perfectly-functional IRC client that turns IRC into a comic book.

Newer Games

• Dragonball Xenoverse 2 Information Contains up-to-date information on Dragonball Xenoverse 2 events, including Raid events. It’s in Japanese, but tends to be more accurate and timely than other sources.

Retro Games

• Babel: A Doom Mod A Doom mod targeting GZDoom that drastically improves enemy AI, modifies the weapons to make them more relatively balanced, and adds several small but welcome QoL features such as splitting pick-ups. I originally included it here in part for the novelty of having a Neocities domain (it has since moved to itch.io), but it is still a quality mod and well worth checking out.
• Biebersoft FreakZone (Archive) An old-school fansite for the glorious and absurd Biebersoft games. Unfortunately, it seems to have gone down at some point in 2021, so this link points to an archive instead.
• Caiman freeware games An old directory full of DOS and Windows freeware games. I spent many hours on sites just like this growing up.
• The Collection Chamber A blog with reviews and hand-crafted downloads of forgotten video games. GNU/Linux users may need to tweak them sometimes due to using case-sensitive filesystems.
• Doomworld A bunch of drama-lovers, to be sure, but it is still the number-one source for all things Doom.
• How to Continue Using Flash Player A thorough article showing how one can continue to use Adobe Flash for the sake of old games and animations.
• The Mushroom Kingdom One of the very first fan sites I ever found, and still an actively-updated cornucopia of resources on everything Mario. It hasn’t changed its themes or styling since I first found it all those years ago, with the sad exception of the removal of the “fan games” section, likely to avoid overzealous lawyers.
• OldUnreal Patches Modern patches for Unreal Tournament ’99 implementing improved platform support, new renderers, better stability, and other nice things.
• /vr/ - Etc A personal site of a retro game fan who enjoys collecting things from image boards. Contains some very nice recommendation charts.

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